Will Pearson
Will Pearson
William E. Pearsonis the co-founder of mental floss, a bi-monthly magazine, which he started with Mangesh Hattikudur when both were students at Duke University. Pearson graduated from Duke in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Describing himself, Pearson noted his penchant for eating two M&M's at the same time, on different sides of the mouth, "making both sides of the mouth equally happy". Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as freshmen at Duke University and in their...
powerful one-day groups
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
war technology achievement
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
stupid skills political
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
today groups individual
Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
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It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
hockey games leafs
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.
form medieval planes
Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.
men important done
As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.
life bridges
We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.
war soldier world
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
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Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
confidence self trying
We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.
choices extinction individual
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
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We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.